The Edge of the World

The director's only feature film, The Edge of the World is a satiric and sometimes grotesquely comic picture of Polish society in 1989, on the eve of the first free election. In the heightened atmosphere of the moment, a political rally becomes evangelical, talk along the perennial queue outside the passport office turns bizarre, and yet another crowd, mostly women, gathers at the foot of a tree to witness something miraculous. Could it be the rainbow the politicians want them to see? Over time it becomes hard to distinguish the miracle-seekers and the queue-standers from the political demonstrators in their human chain of love, the hopeful campaigner from the embittered loudmouthed bum. Two writers, offering wistful and sardonic commentary throughout, are our stand-in witnesses to the affair that is Poland. "The whole world is watching" is the going catch-phrase, but the fear is that no one is; except, perhaps, the woman in the video control room. Surveillance meets documentary-meets fiction, an honest approach to the absurd.

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